Louis L'Amour quote: "I'm actually writing history. It isn't what you'd call big history. I don't write about presidents and generals... I write about the man who was ranching, the man who was mining, the man who was opening up the country."

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DOROTHY LAMOUR

I felt like a wonderful sandwich, a slice of white bread between two slices of ham.
DOROTHY LAMOUR

He had a lot of fun with them,
DOROTHY LAMOUR

Offending people is a necessary and healthy act. Every time you say something that's offensive to an...
LOUIS C.K. (LOUIS SZEKELY)

I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I wr...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

What the people are within, the buildings express without.
LOUIS SULLIVAN

Live life for the moment because everything else is uncertain!
LOUIS TOMLINSON

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
LOUIS NIZER

To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not ...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

I think of myself... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire.
LOUIS L'AMOUR

You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.&#...
LOUIS KAHN

I grew up in Doncaster and have felt the love for football run through the town; it's for that r...
LOUIS TOMLINSON

My favorite moment is when someone says, 'I like 'Unleashed.' 'Now You See Me' i...
LOUIS LETERRIER

I'm a very loyal boyfriend. I'm a bit of a joker... I can be romantic, but not too sickly.
LOUIS TOMLINSON

As a BBC broadcaster, I really do hope that the new incarnation of 'Top Gear' with Chris Eva...
LOUIS THEROUX

L.A. is the opposite of Britain in a lot of respects, and that's what draws so many British peop...
LOUIS THEROUX

You bring me the deepest joy that can be felt by a man whose invincible belief is that Science and P...
LOUIS PASTEUR

Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.
LOUIS UNTERMEYER

I think Donald Trump's had a pattern of leaping on the bandwagon of anything that he feels will ...
LOUIS THEROUX

You blows who you is.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG

There was a man who was an associate of jimmy Hoffa, who testified against Hoffa in his trial down i...
LOUIS STOKES

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
LOUIS BRANDEIS

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
LOUIS L'AMOUR

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us,is a direct result o...
LOUIS PASTEUR

If you hate somebody, it's like a boomerang that misses its target and comes back and hits you i...
LOUIS ZAMPERINI

Look after your body, because I'm 44, and things are happening that I never dreamed of - like ba...
LOUIS THEROUX

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none ...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
LOUIS L'AMOUR

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.
LOUIS L'AMOUR

After the Versailles treaty, the U.S. could have chosen to become a global economic loan shark, but ...
LOUIS NAVELLIER

I had begun reading earlier than most because my sister Emmy Lou, no doubt to keep me from bothering...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about...
LOUIS ARAGON

Love is made by two people in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd but in an oblivious ...
LOUIS ARAGON

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
LOUIS BRANDEIS

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.
LOUIS GINSBERG

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craft...
LOUIS NIZER

When I approach a child
He inspires in me two sentiments:
Tenderness for what he is,
And r...
LOUIS PASTEUR

When I was a small boy I often went to the woods to lie on the grass in the shade. Somehow I had com...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.
LOUIS XIV

Fuck it... That's really the attitude that keeps a family together, it's not "we love each other", i...
LOUIS C.K.

Pamela, I’m in love with you. Yeah, it’s that bad. You’re so beautiful to me. Shut up! Lemme t...
LOUIS C.K.

The only time you look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look...
LOUIS C.K.

Life is like crossing a river. If you take a huge step-aim for too bigger dreams-then the current wi...
LOUIS SACHAR

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only ...
LOUIS SACHAR

Perhaps it's understandable to be more jaded on one's second exposure to something strange.
LOUIS THEROUX

A true gentleman is at a disadvantage in dealing with women. Women are realist, and their tactics ar...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none ...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you ha...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

I am the state.
LOUIS XIV

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
LOUIS NIZER

Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or be...
LOUIS MACNEICE

Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.
LOUIS FISCHER

In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water...
LOUIS NIZER

Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.
LOUIS XIV

Laughter shall drown the raucous shout;
And, though these shelt
LOUIS UNTERMEYER

The trouble with America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned t...
LOUIS KRONENBERGER

The world's literature and folklore are full of stories that point out how futile it can be to seek ...
LOUIS BINSTOCK

There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that whe...
LOUIS KRONENBERGER

Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and the movements and changes in the ...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring...
LOUIS KRONENBERGER

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
LOUIS L'AMOUR

Normally, children learn to gauge rather accurately from the tone of their parent's voice how seriou...
LOUIS KAPLAN

There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles
LOUIS L'AMOUR

Nothing but blackness above
And nothing that moves but the cars...
God, if you wish for our lo...
LOUIS UNTERMEYER

When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.
LOUIS BINSTOCK

Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfacto...
LOUIS BINSTOCK

Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads ...
LOUIS BINSTOCK

From compromise and things half done,
Keep me with stern and stubborn pride,
And when at last...
LOUIS UNTERMEYER

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.
LOUIS PASTEUR

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.
LOUIS XIV

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
LOUIS KOSSUTH

Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again a...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal, My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
LOUIS PASTEUR

In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.
LOUIS KRONENBERGER

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.
LOUIS DUDEK

One of the misfortunes of our time is, that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so muc...
LOUIS KRONENBERGER

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.
LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS

Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically system...
LOUIS ARAGON

O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, n...
LOUIS ARAGON

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.
LOUIS ARAGON

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
LOUIS AGASSIZ

It is nobler to convert souls, than to conquer kingdoms.
LOUIS DEBONNAIRE

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania f...
LOUIS ARAGON

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an obliviou...
LOUIS ARAGON

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled o...
LOUIS ARAGON

There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the ...
LOUIS DUDEK

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.
LOUIS PASTEUR

What we play is life.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG

There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG

There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to fla...
LOUIS ARAGON

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.
LOUIS ARAGON

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.
LOUIS ARAGON

In confession... we open our lives to healing, reconciling, restoring, uplifting grace of him who lo...
LOUIS CASSELS

The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit ...
LOUIS ARAGON

Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG

Punctuality is the politeness of kings.
LOUIS XVIII

What hymns are sung.
What praises said.
For homemade miracles of bread?
LOUIS UNTERMEYER

Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.
JOE LOUIS

Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.
LOUIS ARAGON

Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.
LOUIS XIV

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
LOUIS L'AMOUR

I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right -- shame on you!
LOUIS ARMSTRONG

The precise form of an individual's activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which h...
HENRY LOUIS

A king should die on his feet.
LOUIS XVIII

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of...
LOUIS ARAGON

As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them.
LOUIS BROMFIELD

I would love to see the grimace he [Marquis de Cinq-Mars] is now making on the scaffold. [Fr., Je...
LOUIS XIII

In confession... we open our lives to healing, reconciling, restoring, uplifting grace of Him who l...
LOUIS CASSELS

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the hu...
LOUIS GERSTNER

From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at las...
LOUIS UNTERMEYER

Only little boys and old men sneer at love.
LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS

At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure ...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
LOUIS L'AMOUR

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled ...
LOUIS ARAGON

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.
LOUIS BRANDEIS

Where there is no difference, there is only indifference.
LOUIS NIZER

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a litt...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.
LOUIS PASTEUR

In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind.
LOUIS PASTEUR

In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice
LOUIS KRONENBERGER

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing...
LOUIS NIZER

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craft...
LOUIS NIZER

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still s...
LOUIS LECOIN

In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.
LOUIS PASTEUR

Beauty and seduction is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we love.
LOUIS SCHWARTZBERG

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
LOUIS PASTEUR

I think of myself as being quite affable, approachable, fairly easy to get to know.
LOUIS THEROUX

Also, with information having just come out at the time about J. Edgar Hoover's electronic surve...
LOUIS STOKES

There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life.
LOUIS THEROUX

The King of Spain displayed his esteem for me in a manner that I confess flattered me pleasantly whe...
LOUIS XIV

We have a double agenda of trying to deliver something exciting that people will talk about and will...
LOUIS THEROUX

It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the ...
LOUIS SULLIVAN

I loved Elijah Muhammad with a love that I can't adequately describe.
LOUIS FARRAKHAN

I didn't become a good writer until I learned how to rewrite. And I don't just mean fixing s...
LOUIS SACHAR

My favorite music isn't necessarily the songs that One Direction come out with. That doesn't...
LOUIS TOMLINSON

I don't travel and tell stories, because that's not the way these days. But I write my books...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

To be honest, I don't think I'm the best role model in the world. I'm pretty immature so...
LOUIS TOMLINSON

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.
LOUIS KAHN

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates ...
LOUIS PASTEUR

It is legal because I wish it.
LOUIS XIV

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being...
LOUIS KAHN

Music is life itself. What would this world be without good music? No matter what kind it is.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG

That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.
LOUIS ZAMPERINI

Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer.
LOUIS BONAPARTE

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craft...
LOUIS NIZER

As for restitutions, to nobody in particular do I owe any, but as for those I owe to the realm, I ho...
LOUIS XIV

You have only to see what became of my father's will immediately after his death, and the wills ...
LOUIS XIV

That's what troubles me: I should like to suffer more for the expiation of my sins.
LOUIS XIV

Always follow good counsels.
LOUIS XIV

The Pyrenees are no more.
LOUIS XIV

My court was divided between peace and war according to their various interests, but I considered on...
LOUIS XIV

Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.
LOUIS XIV

I have made my will; I have been tormented to do it. I have bought repose; I know the powerlessness ...
LOUIS XIV

We can do all we wish while we live; afterward, we are less than the meanest.
LOUIS XIV

I am dying, but the state remains.
LOUIS XIV

It is impossible to please all the world.
LOUIS XIV

I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.
LOUIS XIV

My child, you are going to be a great king; do not imitate me in the taste I have had for building, ...
LOUIS XIV

Render to God what you owe him; recognize the obligations you are under to him.
LOUIS XIV

The ministers of kings should learn to moderate their ambition. The higher they elevate themselves a...
LOUIS XIV

First feelings are always the most natural.
LOUIS XIV

Fortune favors the prepared mind.
LOUIS PASTEUR

Art is anything people do with distinction.
LOUIS DUDEK

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had bee...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

My favorite memories growing up in North Carolina were hunting and fishing with my father and brothe...
LOUIS BACON

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biograph...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates ...
LOUIS PASTEUR

Very few of the men whose names have become great in the early pioneering of jazz and of swing were ...
LOUIS ARMSTRONG

There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can b...
LOUIS FARRAKHAN

How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of th...
LOUIS KAHN

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
LOUIS KAHN

One of the things that launched the strength in biotech is when the pharmaceutical industry itself g...
LOUIS NAVELLIER

Optimization tells us precisely how to diversify the portfolio, whether I should have 12% in semicon...
LOUIS NAVELLIER

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania f...
LOUIS ARAGON

Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?
LOUIS ARAGON

Well, I tell you... the first chorus, I plays the melody. The second chorus, I plays the melody roun...
LOUIS ARMSTRONG

I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'...
LOUIS SACHAR

Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in qua...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popula...
LOUIS LEAKEY

Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that ma...
LOUIS FARRAKHAN

I would rather be called a character actor than a star.
LOUIS JOURDAN

We set up the promised clinic for the sick and wounded Masai.
LOUIS LEAKEY

If you write a book about a bygone period that lies east of the Mississippi River, then it's a h...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

In week one of the 'X Factor,' just to be a little bit quirky, I decided to say that I like ...
LOUIS TOMLINSON

Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which...
LOUIS PASTEUR

In January 1921, I found myself wonderfully alone in an empty carriage in a rocking train in the nig...
LOUIS MACNEICE

The separation of a childless couple is dramatic, but the separation of a couple with children is al...
LOUIS GARREL

My wife and I are art collectors and architectural crazies.
LOUIS SUSMAN

It's important for me to treat a girlfriend with respect. My mum would be horrified if I behaved...
LOUIS TOMLINSON

A lot of money could be saved if we ate urban wildlife.
LOUIS THEROUX

The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master...
LOUIS SULLIVAN

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have t...
LOUIS L'AMOUR

Nationalism of the Irish type is often regarded as reactionary. With the World Revolution and the Cl...
LOUIS MACNEICE

Open the borders to willing workers from any and all nations. They will create businesses that pay t...
LOUIS NAVELLIER

Clearly I'm able to read emotions. But I do feel... What is it? Awkwardness. I'm not a slick...
LOUIS THEROUX

Anarchy may await America, due to the daily injustices suffered by the people.
LOUIS FARRAKHAN

I do believe that my whole success goes back to that time I was arrested as a wayward boy at the age...
LOUIS ARMSTRONG

Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the brid...
LOUIS LEAKEY

When this ugly gangster told Joe Glaser that he must take the name of Armstrong down, off of the mar...
LOUIS ARMSTRONG

I'm actually writing history. It isn't what you'd call big history. I don't write about presidents and generals... I write about the man who was ranching, the man who was mining, the man who was opening up the country.

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Louis L'Amour

I'm actually writing history. It isn't what you'd call big history. I don't write about presidents and generals... I write about the man who was ranching, the man who was mining, the man who was opening up the country.

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